13 May 268.Karen Chuang: Follow the Spark
Karen Chuang is a dancer, teacher, and choreographer based in Los Angeles who has toured with Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, Kanye West, taught across nine countries, and built a career that moves fluidly between the commercial and contemporary dance worlds.
Spoiler: Excellence alone won’t get you (and *keep* you) the gig!
We explore:
The Jack Johnson T-shirt moment. A moment when the most important lesson of your career arrives in a phone call you never expected.
“Wherever you go, there you are.” The quote Karen has carried with her for years — and what it actually means to embrace a circumstance that isn’t your ideal one, reframe it with intention, and then decide whether to stay or move yourself somewhere new.
Financial literacy for dancers. What Karen wishes dancers knew earlier about money, and how her approach to educating at conventions like Hollywood Vibe has shifted from when she first started, and why that evolution matters for the next generation coming up.
Being the cool auntie (or not). Karen reflects on what it means to be connected to her nephews not as a career success story, but just as family.
This episode is for every dancer who has ever been told to pick a style, a lane, or a world, and needed one person to show them what’s possible when you don’t.
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